1981.190: Head of a Woman
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1981.190
- People
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Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)
- Title
- Head of a Woman
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Frauenkopf
Former Title: Head of a Girl - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1951
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295085
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- sight: 25.7 x 18.2 cm (10 1/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., graphite, G Marcks
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold; to Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan in memory of Paul Geier
- Copyright
- © Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1981
- Object Number
- 1981.190
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 259-261, cat. no. 30.2, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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